The EU has agreed to a set of measures now. That's basically a good month after the horse has bolted they are locking the stable door. Hopefully, the economic decisions they are making now do save the day. If they don't, the EU is moribund.
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 4:37 am, April 9th, 2020 - 41 comments
Categories: covid-19, health, Politics, United Nations
Tags: coronavirus, covid-19, donald trump, nick kelly, pandemic, united nations, World Health Organisation
The word Pandemic means a disease that is prevalent throughout the world. In other words, a global problem, facing the entire human species who inhabit the earth. During such a horrible phenomenon, leadership is required. Leadership is about developing …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 8:11 am, February 10th, 2020 - 13 comments
Categories: boris johnson, Brexit, International, politicans, uk politics
Tags: Boris Johnson, democracy, Good Friday Agreement, labour party uk, nick kelly, Northern Ireland, scottish independence, Self Determination, UK election 2019
On the June 23 2016, Dad and I were driving back to San Francisco from Sacramento, where we’d visited our relatives. We were fairly late, so had on US public radio to help keep us awake for the drive back to our motel. In the previous two weeks listening …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 11:36 am, February 3rd, 2020 - 26 comments
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The real disappointment of the 2019 UK General Election was the BBC. Once regarded as the bastion of quality media and the envy of much of the world, the BCC's reputation is diminished greatly in recent years. From the historic cover up of Jimmy Savile's …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 11:51 pm, January 27th, 2020 - 30 comments
Categories: facebook, International, internet, jacinda ardern, journalism, labour, Media, political parties, politicans, Politics, twitter, uk politics
Tags: facebook, jacinda ardern, Media, nick kelly, nz labour party, trump, twitter, UK election 2019
Posted on 27/01/2020 by Nick Kelly Ahead of the 2020 General Election in New Zealand, Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that her party is committed to run a factual election and has signed up to a social media tool to help prove it. The…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 10:37 am, January 17th, 2020 - 12 comments
Categories: Austerity, Brexit, International, Jeremy Corbyn, labour, politicans, Politics, uk politics
Tags: austerity, brexit, First Past the Post, jeremy corbyn, labour party uk, nick kelly, Northern Ireland, scottish independence, UK election 2019
Posted on 16/01/2020 by Nick Kelly UK Labour lost the general election. A new leader needs to be elected. The Labour Party is now consumed in this process. Much has been said and written about why Labour lost, the quality of which varies considerably. …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 10:39 am, January 15th, 2020 - 10 comments
Categories: Austerity, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, politicans, Politics, uk politics
Tags: austerity, Blairite, brexit, jeremy corbyn, Momentum, nick kelly, Third Way, tony blair, UK election 2019, UK New Labour
In 2017 Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell and those in Labour who had never accepted Jeremy Corbyn being elected party leader had their speeches prepared. Worst defeat since 1983. "Look, this just shows that Labour can't get elected if you move too far to the…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 6:29 am, January 14th, 2020 - 13 comments
Categories: elections, International, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, racism, uk politics
Tags: Antisemitism, israel, jeremy corbyn, nick kelly, palestine, racism, UK election 2019, uk labour
Posted on 13/01/2020 by Nick Kelly For UK Labour Antisemitism has been a festering sore. This issue could have and should have been dealt with earlier on in a far better way. As I said in my blog post about this during the election Jeremy Corbyn is not …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 3:13 am, January 14th, 2020 - 12 comments
Categories: Brexit, International, Jeremy Corbyn, labour, political parties, politicans, Politics, uk politics
Tags: Antisemitism, glastonbury, jeremy corbyn, nick kelly, UK election 2019, uk labour
When a party loses an election, the leader has to take responsibility. Many cite Jeremy Corbyn's lack of popularity as a key reason for Labour's loss. These calls have been made particularly by his opponents on the right of the UK Labour Party. Few …
The 2011 was not for Proportional Representation. And no effort was really made to run a decent campaign explaining the benefits. Not suggesting it should be Labour's top election policy. But it could do something like propose a Royal Commission like NZ ...
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 6:14 am, January 13th, 2020 - 28 comments
Categories: Brexit, International, Jeremy Corbyn, labour, political parties, politicans, Politics, uk politics
Tags: Boris Johnson, brexit, jeremy corbyn, nick kelly, UK election 2019, uk labour
Many commentators say that the election result for Labour was about more than Brexit. It was, but Brexit was by far one of the major reasons for the result. 43 of the 47 constituencies Labour lost in the 2019 election were leave constituencies. To argue …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 2:56 am, January 13th, 2020 - 13 comments
Categories: electoral systems, First Past the Post, labour, political parties, Politics, uk politics
Tags: First Past the Post, nick kelly, UK election 2019, uk labour
I've made the point a number of times before, during and immediately after the election on this blog about the First Past the Post electoral system. I'll make it again, the results in parliament DO NOT reflect the true vote. Labour won 10,269,076 votes in…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 10:34 am, January 12th, 2020 - 2 comments
Categories: International, Jeremy Corbyn, labour, political parties, Politics, uk politics
Tags: Clement Attlee, defeat, european union, Harold Wilson, iraq, jeremy corbyn, nhs, nick kelly, tony blair, UK election 2019, uk labour, vietnam
Posted on 11/01/2020 by Nick Kelly Before Christmas I posted about the UK Election result and did an analysis of why the Conservatives won. I will now turn to the the UK Labour Party. Given my own history with NZ Labour I’ve followed the UK Labour Party …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 2:04 am, January 8th, 2020 - 11 comments
Categories: Donald Trump, International, Iran, iraq, military, politicans, war
Tags: #WorldWarThree, iran, iraq, justice, nick kelly, peace, Qasem Soleimani, trump, US election, US Military
Less than a week into the New Year and #WorldWarThree is trending on Twitter. Thank you very much Donald Trump. Trump having lost an impeachment vote in the US Congress, has resorted to the Bill Clinton playbook of 1998. Back then Clinton launched an air …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 11:05 am, January 7th, 2020 - 51 comments
Categories: australian politics, climate change, Environment, International, science
Tags: Australian Labor Party, bushfires, climate change, nick kelly, scott morrison, tony abbott
The start of 2020 has been a truely horrible one for Australia. The fires that are sweeping the country have been wreaking havoc. Currently more than 20 people have lost their lives and hundreds more have lost their homes and possessions. In the state of …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 2:29 am, December 30th, 2019 - 9 comments
Categories: boris johnson, Brexit, International, politicans, uk politics
Tags: Boris Johnson, brexit, nick kelly, scottish independence, UK Conservatives, United Ireland
Generally it is safer not to pick elections. Increasingly polling seems to be unreliable, and growing numbers of undecided voters make their minds up on polling day. I would certainly not put a prediction in writing prior to an election. That said, on the…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 11:05 am, December 20th, 2019 - 21 comments
Categories: boris johnson, democratic participation, electoral systems, International, Jeremy Corbyn, MMP, Politics, uk politics
Tags: First Past the Post, MMP, nick kelly, UK Conservatives, UK election 2019, uk labour
Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog The 2019 British election was held a week ago today. By now there has been considerable analysis of what happened and debates about what will happen next. Having blogged throughout the election, I made a conscious …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 1:05 pm, December 12th, 2019 - 7 comments
Categories: International, internet, Jeremy Corbyn, politicans, uk politics
Tags: bbc, Free Broadband, Nationalisation, nick kelly, Public Ownership, UK election 2019, uk labour, UK Labour manifesto
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog One of the more surprising policy announcements from UK Labour during this election campaign is their free broadband policy. Described by the BBC as Broadband Communism (maybe someone should point out to the BBC how …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 11:23 am, December 12th, 2019 - 5 comments
Categories: Austerity, boris johnson, Brexit, Economy, Free Trade, Jeremy Corbyn, politicans, uk politics
Tags: austerity, Boris Johnson, brexit, jeremy corbyn, nick kelly, scottish independence, UK Conservatives, UK election 2019, uk labour
Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog Get Brexit done. Its all Boris Johnson says. If he is asked about the NHS, the economy, education, climate change what he ate for breakfast last night all you gets is “well, um ah, that’s a well, we a need to just get …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 12:14 pm, December 10th, 2019 - 18 comments
Categories: Austerity, boris johnson, Brexit, Economy, Free Trade, Jeremy Corbyn, politicans, uk politics
Tags: Boris Johnson, free trade, health funding, jeremy corbyn, John Major, nhs, nick kelly
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Former Conservative Prime Minister John Major in 2016 commented that the NHS would be as safe as a pet hamster in the presence of a hungry python if Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Iain Duncan Smith rose to power …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 12:37 pm, December 9th, 2019 - Comments Off on Post:Northern Ireland’s precarious peace
Categories: boris johnson, Brexit, International, politicans, uk politics
Tags: brexit, DUP, Good Friday Agreement, ireland, nick kelly, Northern Ireland, Sinn Feinn, uk elections, UK politics, UK Tories
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog On Friday, UK leader of the opposition revealed a leaked Treasury Paper which undermines the Prime Ministers claims that there will be no checks on goods moving between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. My earlier …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 4:25 am, December 7th, 2019 - 3 comments
Categories: boris johnson, climate change, Environment, International, politicans, science, uk politics
Tags: Boris Johnson, climate change, Environment, greta thunberg, margaret thatcher, nick kelly, UK General Election., UN General Assembly, youth quake
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog I was a bit late to the party in following the rise of Greta Thunberg. In August 2018 she began her activism by spending school days outside the Swedish parliament holding up a sign saying (in Swedish) “School strike…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 9:56 am, December 6th, 2019 - 14 comments
Categories: boris johnson, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon, uk politics
Tags: Boris Johnson, brexit, jeremy corbyn, nick kelly, scottish independence, scottish national party, theresa may, tories
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Scotland matters in the 2019 UK general election. Yet much of the electorate have little understanding of the place, it’s politics or what could happen after the December 12 election. Scotland could well decide the …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 12:20 pm, December 5th, 2019 - 12 comments
Categories: Austerity, Brexit, uk politics
Tags: austerity, Boris Johnson, UK election, uk labour
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog One of the cliche’s you hear from those active in politics over the last 30 years is that “you have to win the centre”. What is this centre? Presumably the people who float between the political left and the …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 2:35 am, December 4th, 2019 - 2 comments
Categories: boris johnson, International, Jeremy Corbyn, politicans, Politics, terrorism, uk politics
Tags: Boris Johnson, jeremy corbyn, London Bridge, nick kelly, terrorism, UK Conservatives, UK election, uk labour, UK politics
Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog On Friday 29 November 2 people were killed and others injured in a terror attack on London Bridge. I live near to this area, and like most in South East London was shaken and upset to learn of this attack. What happened…
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 11:54 am, December 2nd, 2019 - 18 comments
Categories: Brexit, Economy, im/migration, immigration, International, uk politics, Unions, workers' rights
Tags: brexit, ed miliband, im/migration, migrants, nigel farage, UK election, UK election 2015, uk labour, Unions
Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog Prior to the release of UK Labour’s manifesto, Unite Union General Secretary Len McCluskey come out in the media saying it would be unwise for the party to support extending free movement of migration with Europe. My …
Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 2:15 am, November 30th, 2019 - 2 comments
Categories: Brexit, electoral systems, First Past the Post, International, Politics, polls, uk politics
Tags: brexit, nick kelly, polling, UK election, uk labour, UK Tories
Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog One feature of the UK election has been various electoral alliances or deals done. This has mostly occurred around the issue of Brexit. Early on in the campaign I wrote about Trump’s intervention in the UK election, …
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